Rom, or ROM may refer to:

Biomechanics and medicine

Risk of mortality The risk of mortality (ROM) provides a medical classification to estimate the likelihood The likelihood function (often simply called the likelihood) represents the probability of random variable realizations conditional on particular values of ...

, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient *

Rupture of membranes Rupture of membranes (ROM) or amniorrhexis is a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac. Normally, it occurs spontaneously at full term either during or at the beginning of labor. Rupture of the membranes is known c ...

, a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac *

Range of motion Range of motion (or ROM), is the linear or angular distance that a moving object may normally travel while properly attached to another. It is also called range of travel (or ROT), particularly when talking about mechanical devices and in mechanic ...

, e.g. of joints in physiotherapy

Computers and mathematics

Read-only memory Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be electronically modified after the manufacture of the memory device. Read-only memory is useful for storing soft ...

, a type of storage media that is used in computers and other electronic devices **

ROM cartridge A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electro ...

, a portable form of read-only memory **

ROM image A ROM image, or ROM file, is a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip, often from a video game cartridge, or used to contain a computer's firmware, or from an arcade game's main board. The term is frequentl ...

, a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip *

Random oracle In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every ''unique query'' with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain. If a query is repeated, it responds the same way every time th ...

model, a mathematical abstraction used in cryptographic proofs *

ROM (MUD) DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of multi-user domain (MUD). It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Stærfeldt at DIKU (''Datalogisk I ...

, a popular MUD codebase * Request of Maintainer (see

Software maintainer In free and open source software and inner source software, a software maintainer or package maintainer is usually one or more people who build source code into a binary package for distribution, commit patches, or organize code in a source re ...

)

Engineering

, the distance that a movable object may normally travel while properly attached to another object * RFID on metal, refers to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags which perform a specific function when attached to metal objects * Rough order of magnitude, a type of cost estimation

Fiction and entertainment

Ethan Rom Dr. Ethan Goodspeed, also known as Ethan Rom, is a fictional character portrayed by William Mapother on the ABC television show '' Lost''. Introduced in the first season as the main antagonist, Ethan is the surgeon for the antagonistic and myst ...

, one of the Others in the TV series ''Lost'' *

Rom (comics) Rom the Space Knight is a superhero, originally a toy and then a magazine lead. Rom was created by Scott Dankman, Richard C. Levy, and Bryan L. McCoy for Parker Brothers and is now a Hasbro asset. After the toy was licensed to Marvel Comics, Rom ...

, a Marvel Comics superhero based on the Parker Brothers toy of the same name * Rom (''Star Trek''), a Ferengi character in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * Rom, a fictional character in ''Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2'' * '' Runes of Magic'', a popular MMORPG * Rom, a boss in the videogame ''

Bloodborne is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. ''Bloodborne'' follows the player's character, a Hunter, through the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-era–inspired ci ...

'' *

Read-Only Memory (publisher) Read-Only Memory is a British publisher of art books on topics of video game history and culture. Following a resurgence of interest in 1980s and '90s British video game development, the company crowdfunded and produced four art books: an ora ...

, a British publisher of art books related to the Britsoft era of video game development * ''Rom'' (album)

Places and structures

River Rom The River Rom, also known as the River Beam below its confluence with the Ravensbourne, is a tributary of the River Thames in England that flows through east London suburbs surrounding the metropolitan centre of Romford, part of it forming a sec ...

, England * Rom (river), Switzerland and Italy *

Rom, Afghanistan Rom, Afghanistan is a village in Sar-e Pol Province in northern Afghanistan. See also * Sar-e Pol Province Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul (Dari/Pashto: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the count ...

, a village in Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan *

Rom, Deux-Sèvres Rom is a commune situated in the Deux-Sèvres department, in western France.Commune de Rom ...

, a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France *

Rom (Mecklenburg) Rom is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Geography and transport The municipality is located 7 km east of Parchim and seven kilometers west of Lübz. The Bundesstraße 191 runs throug ...

, a community in the district of Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany * Rom, a district of

Morsbach Morsbach is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, a district in North Rhine-Westphalia near the border of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. In 2015, Morsbach's population was 10,600. The central village, also named Morsbach, has a population o ...

in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Rom, Iran Rum ( fa, روم, also Romanized as Rūm and Rom) is a village in Sedeh Rural District, Sedeh District, Qaen County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a count ...

, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran *

Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...

, a museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada *

The Rom The Rom is a Grade II listed skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England. Built in 1978, and designed by Adrian Rolt of G-Force, it is the most completely preserved purpose-built skatepark in England. It is the first skatepark in Europe to achi ...

, skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England *

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

, UNDP code and former IOC code

Society

* Rom (plural Roma), one of the ethnic designations used by the

Romani people The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with si ...

** rom,

Romani language Romani (; also Romany, Romanes , Roma; rom, rromani ćhib, links=no) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities. According to '' Ethnologue'', seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their ...

, language code ISO 639 alpha-2 * Rom or ROM, system of Indigenous Australian customary law ** ROM ceremony, a Yolngu ceremonial practice

Other uses

* Return on margin, a judge of performance based on the net gain or net loss compared to the perceived risk * Refuel On the Move, a DoD logistic action *

Epistle to the Romans The Epistle to the Romans is the sixth book in the New Testament, and the longest of the thirteen Pauline epistles. Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by Paul the Apostle to explain that Salvation (Christianity), salvation is offered ...

, a book of the Bible commonly abbreviated ''Rom.'' {{disambiguation, geo